A Hackathon for Classical Tibetan

Orna Almogi, Lena Dankin, Nachum Dershowitz, Lior Wolf

Abstract: We describe the course of a hackathon dedicated to the development of linguistic tools for Tibetan Buddhist studies. Over a period of five days, a group of seventeen scholars, scientists, and students developed and compared algorithms for intertextual alignment and text classification, along with some basic language tools, including a stemmer and word segmenter.